By Sunshine Barbito
My knees sink into the mud and grass while I try and think of a prayer. It was just lying there in forever-sleep.
Read MoreAs someone learning to live with chronic and invisible disabilities myself, it has been an important goal of mine to further broaden carte blanche’s platform to include celebrating stories and artwork created by individuals who live with disabilities, however they may identify or define disability.
By Sunshine Barbito
My knees sink into the mud and grass while I try and think of a prayer. It was just lying there in forever-sleep.
Read MoreBy Bára Hladík
I was just among the whales. I hang somewhere in water or mud listening to whales move through water until the snakes weave my muscles. They swim up the center of my spine and fill my Lymph with soft poison.
Read MoreBy Sue Murtagh
Theresa misplaces her phone every single day. Ditto her car keys. But after the regular panic and flurry, running around like an idiot upstairs and down, dialing the phone from the landline, checking yesterday's pockets, she always finds what she's looking for.
Read MoreBy Sara Sherr
Hannah’s family had a huge farm with something like thirteen acres. She reminded me about all the acres when she tied me to a tree so far away from her parents’ stone mansion that I could no longer see it over all the rolling hills in the distance.
Read MoreBy Steven Stowell
Sean’s bedroom door was open just a sliver; a thread of warm light peaked out, framed by the shadows of the upstairs hall. Nudging open the door, I found Sean sitting on the floor, leaning his bare shoulders against the side of his bed, facing away from me. He contemplated something held in his hands, blocked by the corner of the bed—a book or a magazine, perhaps. His room was filled with the sweetly sour smell of sleep.
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